A New Year's resolution worth keeping: support bookshops instead of Amazon - Spectator Blogs

And nor does the internet enthuse about its favourite title by clutching the paperback to its chest, as one young man at Daunt on Marylebone High Street did. Pressing the book - Iris Murdoch's Under the Net to his Fair Isle jumper he advised that while he was "devoted" to her first novel, it was not "quintessential" Iris Murdoch. For that I needed The Sea, The Sea the most "Iris Murdoch, Iris Murdoch" of her novels. It was a lovely bit of phrase-making.